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TIFOSITEASER # 52 <SOLVED> Volkswagen Taxi by Messerschmidt
« on: November 17, 2007, 08:00:08 PM »
Okay, I know it's a Beetle...but can you tell me who built it and what it was used for?
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Re: TIFOSITEASER # 52
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2007, 11:00:20 PM »
Looks rather like a Police car
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Re: TIFOSITEASER # 52
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2007, 11:24:19 PM »
It does, but it's not...





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Re: TIFOSITEASER # 52
« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2007, 01:11:16 AM »
http://automuseum.volkswagen.de/190.html

Beetle form coachbuilder Messerschmidt, used as taxi
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Re: TIFOSITEASER # 52
« Reply #4 on: November 18, 2007, 02:02:08 AM »
The Taxi part is correct, but the coachbuilder isn't...



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Re: TIFOSITEASER # 52
« Reply #5 on: November 18, 2007, 02:26:00 AM »
Hi, that is a taxi conversion by Rometsch, from 1951.
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Re: TIFOSITEASER # 52 <SOLVED> ROMETSCH VW TAXI
« Reply #6 on: November 18, 2007, 05:05:37 AM »
Paul has it.


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Re: TIFOSITEASER # 52 <SOLVED> ROMETSCH VW TAXI
« Reply #7 on: November 19, 2007, 03:39:53 PM »
Sorry, I had it.

please compare (by double clicking on the pictures)

http://automuseum.volkswagen.de/199.html
http://automuseum.volkswagen.de/190.html

check what is mounted on the roof of the car we're searching.

And reassign the points.....
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Re: TIFOSITEASER # 52 <SOLVED> ROMETSCH VW TAXI
« Reply #8 on: November 19, 2007, 04:20:20 PM »
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Re: TIFOSITEASER # 52 <SOLVED> ROMETSCH VW TAXI
« Reply #9 on: November 19, 2007, 04:34:26 PM »
Great site!

But on that page we see pictures from both the Messerschmidt and the Rometsch taxi.

Please refer to the official Volkswagen museum pages I have posted

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Re: TIFOSITEASER # 52 <SOLVED> ROMETSCH VW TAXI
« Reply #10 on: November 19, 2007, 04:50:24 PM »
I wennt to both websites, and couldn't find any differences in the pics...that doesn't necessarily mean that there aren't any; I just can't spot them.  My original source was as follows:

www.shorey.net/.../Beetle/htmltree/html

Shorey describes the car as a 1953 Rometsch Beetle taxi, so I did, too.  If there was any collaboration between Messerschmidt and Rometsch, that may account for the confusion...I wasn't trying to trick anyone.  I diodn't see anything different on the roofs of the cars, but I'm not wide awake yet...I've also seen this car described as a 1951 AND 1953 model!


To avoid any confusion, I'll just award double points...

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Re: TIFOSITEASER # 52 <SOLVED> ROMETSCH VW TAXI
« Reply #11 on: November 19, 2007, 05:03:59 PM »
Ok,the pictures from the official sites are very small but It seems that on the roof the Rometsch version has 2 lights and not one...I think erbas is right...
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Re: TIFOSITEASER # 52 <SOLVED> ROMETSCH VW TAXI
« Reply #12 on: November 19, 2007, 05:07:25 PM »
If you double click on the museum pics then they enlarge so you can see the difference....

I didn't know the Messerschmidt thing before.....

Anyway, thanks
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Re: TIFOSITEASER # 52 <SOLVED> ROMETSCH VW TAXI
« Reply #13 on: November 12, 2013, 04:25:32 PM »
One survivor in the end of the 1970īs:
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Re: TIFOSITEASER # 52 <SOLVED> ROMETSCH VW TAXI
« Reply #14 on: November 12, 2013, 04:37:18 PM »
Just as rare then as the Tempo Matador 1400 camper in the background.  :)
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Re: TIFOSITEASER # 52 <SOLVED> ROMETSCH VW TAXI
« Reply #15 on: April 17, 2021, 06:00:42 AM »
I've split this topic as Carnut's puzzle (https://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2016-45/solved-neh-5015-rometsch-vw-4-door-limousine/) shows the Rometsch Limousine resp. Taxi. The Tifositeaser # 52 shows the car at the VW Museum which wasn't built by Rometsch, but by the coachbuilder Messerschmidt from Frankfurt. The coachbuilder Messerschmidt is not to be confused with the airplane and Kabinenroller factory Messerschmitt. Below the sign at the VW museum clearly crediting Messerschmidt for this car.
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